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Debasement is the formal term for removal of a knighthood or other honour. The last knight to be publicly debased was Sir Francis Mitchell. More recent examples include Sir Roger Casement whose knighthood was canceled for treason during the First World War and Sir Anthony Blunt whose knighthood was withdrawn in 1979. The most recent debasements centre on the fallout from the banking crisis at the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century.